{"id":970,"date":"2021-03-14T22:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T22:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2021-03-14T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T22:47:31","slug":"f3-fleet-feet-elmhurst-5k-2-28-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/14\/f3-fleet-feet-elmhurst-5k-2-28-21\/","title":{"rendered":"F^3 Fleet Feet Elmhurst 5K &#8211; 2\/28\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SM_F3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SM_F3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"971\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SM_F3.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?attachment_id=971\" class=\"wp-image-971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SM_F3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SM_F3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SM_F3.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I am not a fan of virtual races. So I was excited to see the F^3 5K race series, which was made up of races at local Fleet Feet locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of the cold weather and snow, I hadn&#8217;t been able to get much running in since November. Pretty much everything had been walks on an indoor track to keep the legs loose. Because of this, I knew the first few 5Ks would be a challenge. Even still, I was eager for the opportunity to race in-person again and signed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The race itself had its ups and downs. Between the puddles, hills and the unintentional snow marker &#8216;hit&#8217;, there were challenges. But there were also successes when I was able to find a rhythm during chunks of the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am grateful to Natalie for guiding for me. I&#8217;m also grateful to her for pushing me up the final hill. The 5K finished with a 1\/10th &#8211; 1\/5th of a mile hill climb. As we got to the bottom of that hill, I wasn&#8217;t thrilled to climb it. She helped to motivate me on to make it to the top of the hill and finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it wasn&#8217;t perfect, it was good to be out racing again. I&#8217;m looking forward to the start of the 2021 Triathlon season next weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I am not a fan of virtual races. So I was excited to see the F^3 5K race series, which was made up of races at local Fleet Feet locations. Because of the cold weather and snow, I hadn&#8217;t been able to get much running in since November. Pretty much everything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/14\/f3-fleet-feet-elmhurst-5k-2-28-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">F^3 Fleet Feet Elmhurst 5K &#8211; 2\/28\/21<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}